The Prize: the face-to-face between Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner, a captivating historical confrontation

Do you know the history of chemists and physicists Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner ? The room of Cyril Gély, The Pricewill teach you a little more. The play, featuring a historical dialogue between the two protagonists, can be seen at the Théâtre Hébertot from January 22, 2025.

The Price takes us to December 10, 1946, at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, shortly before the ceremony of handing over the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Otto Hahn receives a visit from Lise Meitner in its sequel. This former collaborator, with whom he shared more than thirty years of work, is not there to congratulate him. She comes to confront Hahn and settle unresolved scores…

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The room of Cyril Gély, behind closed doors promising to be captivating, explores the confrontation between two scientists facing moral dilemmas and historical truths. Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner worked together for many years and their partnership led to major discoveries, notably on nuclear fission. Their relationship, however, became strained after World War II.

In 1938, Otto Hahn discovers the fission of uranium, but it is Lise Meitner, exiled to Sweden because of her Jewish origins, who provided the theoretical interpretation of this discovery with her nephew, Otto Frisch. Although their contribution is essential, Hahn alone receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944, which aroused deep disappointment and a feeling of injustice in Meitner. Cyril Gély then creates a fictitious face-to-face in The Prixhighlighting the underlying conflicts just after the end of World War II.

In The Price, staged by Tristan Petitgirard (Turing’s Machine, Home Break, In Monet’s Eyes), we find on stage Pierre Arditi and Ludmila Mikael in the roles ofOtto Hahn and Lise Meitner, for a face-to-face meeting at the summit. The acting will be accompanied by the melody Hungarian by Schubert, declined by Romain Trouillet. A promising and awaited play at the Théâtre Hébertot.